Before you are four artists’ books: “Plants and Insects”, “Translations and Transformations”, “Parallel Voices, and "Celebrating Childhood". They are each printed in different media and drawn from different sources. None of them have been created with illustration in mind, but evolve from the core of the accompanying text. Sometimes I am in the middle of a print and come across a poem that expresses what I am trying to say. The book grows from that point of recognition. In other situations, I may have read a poem that I like and save it for years. One print can act as a catalyst to this memory and another book starts. Regardless of the print medium or content, words and images merge to produce a different art form: the artist book.